Recent Patents on Electrical Engineering

Author(s): Apostolos Georgiadis, Ana Collado and Julien Perruisseau-Carrier

DOI: 10.2174/1874476110902010019

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Patents on Reconfigurable Reflectarray Antennas

Page: [19 - 26] Pages: 8

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Abstract

Reflectarray antennas have attracted significant attention due to a number of attractive properties, such as low cost, and conformal deployment capability. In addition, the drive towards flexible radio transceivers, enabling beamforming and multi-beam operation has spurred significant interest towards the design of antenna elements and antenna arrays with reconfigurable capabilities. A review of recent publications and patents on reconfigurable reflectarrays is presented focusing on the different capabilities, technologies and architectures that have been proposed.

Keywords: Reflectarray antennas, reconfigurable antennas, antenna beam-forming